Education

April 2006 - now
University of Trento
Department of Information and Communication Technology
Post-doc

Nov 2001 - March 2006
University of Trento
International Graduate School in Information and Telecommunication Technologies
PhD student
PhD thesis title: “Towards Peer-to-Peer Information Management Systems”.

Oct 1999 - Jun 2001
Belarusian State University
Faculty of Economics
PhD student
Subject: Mathematical Methods in Economy, E-commerce

Sep 1995 - Jun 1999
Belarusian State University
Faculty of Radio-Physics and Electronics
Subject: Commercial activity on the market of radio-electronic devices and informational services
Bachelor thesis:  “Development and implementation of a software system to support planning of educational activities in higher educational institutions"

Sep 1992 - Jun 1995
Polytechnic Lyceum at the Belarusian State Polytechnic Academy, Borisov, Belarus.
Specialization: math, physics and information sciences

Sep 1984 - Jun 1992
Secondary school, Borisov, Belarus

Academic Awards and Scholarships

• Won a scholarship for 3 years PhD study in Information and Telecommunication Technologies – Awarded by the  University of Trento, Italy. Sep 2001
• Graduation from the State Belarusian University with the Diploma with Distinction. Jun 1999
• Winner of an Olympiad in Physics (1st place) carried out by the Radio-Physics and Electronics Faculty of The Belarusian State University. May 1995
• Winner of  an Olympiad in Physics (3rd place) carried out by Physics Faculty of The Belarusian State University. May 1995
• Winner of Olympiads in Math and Physics carried out by the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics. The certificates entitle to enter Computer Science faculty of the University free of exams
• Participant of three (out of four) rounds of Soros High School Olympiads in Physics. The Olympiads were organized by Jorge Soros Educational Fond in Belarus to support young scientists

Professional record

May 2001 - Nov 2001

Place: SRA (Automated Reasoning Systems) Division of the IRST Institute (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Trento, Italy
Position: Research associate
Responsibilities: Development of an architecture supporting database inter-operation in a P2P environment

Jan 2000 - May 2001

Place: DeltaSoft Europe s.r.o., Minsk, Belarus
Position: Marketing Department Head
Responsibilities: IT market analysis, marketing campaigns planning and implementation, business negotiations, etc.

Sep 1997 – Jun 1999

Place: System Analysis Department of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus
Position: Senior developer
Responsibilities: Development of a distributed information system for supporting the decision making process when creating timetables in higher educational institutions. Used tools: VBA under MS Excel

In-services and other professional trainings

• EDAMOK DAYS, Sardagna, Italy. Oct 2002
• Database Group of the University of Washington and Microsoft Research Labs, June 2002
• Fifth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2002), Madison, WI. June 6-7, 2002
• ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2002 conference, Madison, WI. June 3-6 2002
• Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), 9th International Conference,  2001, Trento, Italy. Sep 5-7, 2001
• MRG/SRA Symposium, Levanto, Italy. Jun 2001
• International Exhibition of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Automation Technologies (CeBIT), Hanover, Germany. Feb 2000